Jul 30, 2025 | Doctor Legal
FollowFollowFollowFollow Fitness to practise investigations play a critical role in ensuring that healthcare professionals in the UK meet the standards required to deliver safe and effective care. However, when these investigations extend over many months or even...
Jul 14, 2025 | Doctor Legal
FollowFollowFollowFollow Accepted outcomes will become a new, paper-based route for resolving fitness to practise concerns without a full panel hearing in what the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) describes as “fundamental...
Jun 3, 2025 | Case Study, Doctor Legal
FollowFollowFollowFollow Dr SR, approached us just before their case was to be considered by the Case Examiners. Given the allegations and evidence, there was no prospect of the matter being stopped at that stage, so focus moved quickly to case strategy. It was a...
May 19, 2025 | Doctor Legal
FollowFollowFollowFollow Interim Orders in Professional Regulation: Balancing Safety and Humanity Interim orders are a regulatory tool used during the early stages of a fitness to practise investigation. For healthcare professionals, being subject to an interim order...
May 5, 2025 | Doctor Legal
FollowFollowFollowFollow In a previous post, we reported on the truly tragic case of a consultant anaesthetist with an exemplary professional record who died by suicide after being informed of a General Medical Council (GMC) investigation into his fitness to practise....
Apr 23, 2025 | Doctor Legal
FollowFollowFollowFollow In a previous post, we reported on the truly tragic case of a consultant anaesthetist with an exemplary professional record who died by suicide after being informed of a General Medical Council (GMC) investigation into his fitness to practise....